Pollack - PURE
Pollack is a boutique design company, specializing in unique, innovative designs, and using a large and varied tool box of artistry, fibre contents, yarns and weaving techniques.
Pollack was founded in June 1988 by Mark Pollack, Rick Sullivan and Susan Sullivan with a memorable collection of 22 textile designs targeted to the high-end contract interiors market. Since then, the line has flourished and expanded into the residential and hospitality markets, as a more decorative aesthetic was combined with the company’s solid technical foundation.
Today, the wide-ranging collection is celebrated for fabrics that easily cross the lines of these individual segments, fabrics marked by sophisticated design, intricate construction, nuanced colour palettes and timeless elegance. Pollack continues to thrive under the next generation of executives—all long-term veterans of the company—including Susan Whalen, who was appointed President in 2017 and Rachel Doriss, VP and Design Director, who took the helm of the design studio in 2011.
“We are weavers, painters, and fabric aficionados. We bring that experience and enthusiasm into each and every design we create, from a simple stripe, to a detailed embroidery.”
- RACHEL DORISS -
Rachel oversees the in-house design team and guides the creative vision for each textile collection. The studio’s designers are, first and foremost, weavers. Each with a degree in textile design, they have learned the architecture of cloth and how to build a fabric from the ground up. The team are makers, and they are artists– and believe in the value of drawing with a pencil rather than a computer mouse. Besides the control it gives over the quality of the line, putting pencil to paper expresses a uniquely personal hand, and the majority of Pollack’s patterns begin as hand-drawn sketches. Additional design factors then come into play: colour, texture, lustre, fibre content, hand and scale. In the Pollack Studio, these individual elements are balanced and perfected, becoming the building blocks of a fabric’s structure–and reminding us that we experience fabric on many levels and with most of our senses.
For this brand focus we take a look at one of Pollack’s fabric categories – PURE which highlights natural fibres—think wool, cotton, linen—and focuses on nuanced texture over colour and pattern.
Consistent with all Pollack’s textiles, an inventive use of materials and innovative weaves results in unexpected structures and surfaces throughout the selection. These simple surface textures are designed to be combined and layered with one another.
PURE invites not just a combination of fabrics, but the fusion of finishes, allowing the mix of lustrous with matte, smooth with textured, opaque with transparent or elegant with rustic. Which is to say, as subtle as this collection may be, it also offers a broad range of design possibilities.
ALTFIELD APPROVED - Pollack PURE
- Staff Favourites -
Victoria, our Sales Executive, loves: Scotch Flannel
“This fabric gives a real country/cosy feeling, perfect for any space and I love the pop of colour!”
Rodell, our Showroom Manager, loves: Vanishing Point
“I love the genius sheer design where the grid looks like it partially disappears into the sheer when hanging, however the grid becomes solid when light comes through it, revealing the yarn from the back of the fabric”
Katherine, our PR & Marketing Executive, loves: Edelweiss
“I love the subtle texture created with this boucle”
Fionn, our Sales Executive, loves: Anni
“Inspired by Anni Albers, I love the complexity created from a simple colour blocking design”
Julie, our Customer Service Executive, loves: String Theory
“The quilted design elevates this cotton velvet”
Emma, our PR & Marketing Manager, loves: Zsa Zsa
“A luxurious pile with an ombre stripe, makes an amazing throw”
Suzy, our Sales Executive, loves: Folk Dance
“My favourite Pollack Pure is Folk Dance, it has a lovely dry texture and contemporary feel and I love the chevron design”
Holly, our Sales Executive, loves: Union Square
“I like the reversible aspect of the pattern and colours plus the fact it’s made of wool!”
